Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west & Lithuania at its southern border, & now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany & returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991. It is now a nowhere land of wide skies & forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles & ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between the Germanic & Slav worlds. His digressive travels at the wheel of a Skoda become an investigation into the whereabouts of a former lover, a search for an excavator of tombs, & a journey in the footsteps of Louis XVIII, for whom Courland was once a place of exile. ...

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power & end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation`s course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, & his achievements & his legacy will be debated for years to come. Now his memoirs reveal in intimate detail this unique political & personal journey, providing an insight into the man, the politician & the statesman, & charting successes, controversies & disappointments with an extraordinary candour. ”A Journey” will prove essential & compulsive reading for anyone who wants to understand the complexities of our global world. As an account of the nature & uses of power, it will also have a readership that extends well beyond politics, to all those who want to understand the challenges of leadership today. ...

Immigration & the growing Latino population of the United States have become such contentious issues that it can be hard to have a civil conversation about how Latinoization is changing the face of America. So in the summer of 2007, Louis Mendoza set out to do just that. Starting from Santa Cruz, California, he bicycled 8, 500 miles around the entire perimeter of the country, talking to people in large cities & small towns about their experiences either as immigrants or as residents who have welcomed--or not--Latino immigrants into their communities. He presented their enlightening, sometimes surprising, firsthand accounts in Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration & the Latinoization of the United States. Now, in A Journey Around Our America, Mendoza offers his own account of the visceral, emotional, intellectual, & spiritual

Dimensions of traveling the country in search of a deeper, broader understanding of what it means to be Latino in the United States in the twenty-first century. With a blend of first- & second-person narratives, blog entries, poetry, & excerpts from conversations he had along the way, Mendoza presents his own aspirations for & critique of social relations, political ruminations, personal experiences, & emotional vulnerability alongside the stories of people from all walks of life, including students, activists, manual laborers, & intellectuals. His conversations & his experiences as a Latino on the road reveal the multilayered complexity of Latino life today as no academic study or newspaper report ever could.

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”A Journey into Flaubert’s Normandy”, is a fascinating, lively, & informative book
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. For the last ten years, journalist Jens Mühling has been traveling through Russia in search of stories that appear unbelievable: a hermit from the Taiga who only recently discovered there was a world beyond the woods; a mathematician who believes a thousand years of Russian history to be a fairy tale; a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there. Mühling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities, & attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders. ...

In the first book of its kind, Aaron Rosen tells the story of how art developed across the world. He takes young readers on a journey through art history, from the Palaeolithic period to the present day, stopping off at thirty different locations around the world. As readers travel from one incredible destination to the next, they will discover the remarkable network of caves carved into the rock in ad 500 at Ajanta, India; Cambodia’s remarkable Angkor Wat as it stood in ad 1200; the glories of Renaissance Florence in ad 1500; & the remarkable energy in New York in the 1950s. At every stop-off point readers will encounter stories of astonishing artworks & the cultures that gave birth to them. There are three sections: prehistoric & ancient; medieval & early modern; & modern & contemporary. At each location, two beautifully illustrated spreads allow children to engage with the art, artifacts & culture of a unique place in time. Along the way, key movements & ideas are picked out & explained for a young audience. A Journey Through Art is the perfect companion for young explorers of the world’s cultural history ...

Take a journey from your doorstep to distant lands. See a pond frog catching flies, a bear leaving its woodland den, & elephants grazing the African grasslands, as this delightful visual safari transports you through the varied habitats of the planet. Packed with lively illustrations to reveal our amazing natural world, this delightful factual picture book is perfect for a parent & child to read together or to explore independently. ...

A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher`s rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London. Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters

Includes:: council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents & management consultants, & even Prince Charles. Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise & dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development & reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise & fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to live through the Thatcher years.

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A Journey Through South-East England: Broadstairs to Lewes follows Brian`s latest walking adventures through the South-East of Engl&. Brian has previously walked over 1, 000 miles for his last two walking companion guide books, Finding My Place & Walking My Patch. In this book, Brian shares the details of four complex walks: Broadstairs to Canterbury (a journey through East Kent), Canterbury to Bethersden (scaling the North Downs & across the Low Weald), Bethersden to Bexhill (straddling the County boundary) & Bexhill to Lewes (1066 Country, Beachy Head & The South Downs). Each walk contains a detailed guide & map of the route, & the walks celebrate the geography, geology & landscape of Southern Engl&. More than just a walking guide, A Journey Through South-East England is essential reading for lovers of the great outdoors & protectors of the diminishing landscape. Brian also delights readers with poetry along the way as his poems cover many of his observations during his walks. ...

This unabridged compact edition of photographer Harry Cory Wright's breathtaking book documents his quest to capture the variety of natural landscapes that make up the modern British Isles. In the tradition of the great journeys undertaken by such photographic pioneers as Fox Talbot, Cory Wright travelled with his large-format plate camera through the fragile, frozen beauty of Unst in Shetl&, down through the Western Isles & mainland Scotland to the dusty chalklands & glowing harvests of southern England & Wales. Each of his remarkable images is infused with the unique spirit of its location
- from wild mountain ranges to secret woodland glades, from windswept beaches in winter to wheatfields gleaming in the late-summer sun. With an evocative foreword by award-winning travel writer Adam Nicolson, this is an outstanding portrayal of rural Britain today.
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